Shena Mackay

• Jan-1997
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Another native Scot, Mackay published this comic novel to acclaim in 1971. The story takes place during the 25 days of advent leading up to Christmas, and though often funny, it deals with the great poverty of its characters and their attempts to fin...

• Jul-1997
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Set in the small English village of Stonebridge, the Orchard on Fire tells the story of eight-year-old April Harlency's coming-of-age in a place where the charm of the local landscape contrasts sharply with the predjuices and vagaries of the adult wo...

• Nov-1997
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• Jan-2001
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A new collection of short fiction by the author of The Orchard of Fire, a Booker Prize finalist, introduces a host of memorable and bizarre characters, including a would-be biographer who visits a home for retired clowns and an elderly, once-...

• Sep-2005
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• Sep-2005
• / Horror
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When a lonely woman in a small 1958 English village bears a child after an affair with a transient painter, her scandalized neighbors, including a malicious widow, decide to cast her out and launch a bitter witch hunt. Reprint....

• Aug-2007
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Daphne and Rex live lives of well-to-do elegance while Rex's brother Stanley scrimps for tobacco and Camp coffee. Rex's daughter has also become a victim; her cruel husband has turned her into an eccentric skivvy. If life is a bowl of cherries, there...

• Jan-2009
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Shena Mackay, one of the very best short story writers in the world, has written thirteen brilliant new stories. This collection also contains twenty-three more from her previous collections, making The Atmospheric Railway a delight for existing admi...

• May-2009
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• Nov-2019
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Here is a wonderful collection of short stories by the writer known for 'the Mackay vision, suburban - as kitsch, as unexceptional, and yet as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house, its threshold radiant with tiling and sta...

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